In the women's chain ball final of the Tokyo Olympic Games held on the evening of August 3, Wang Zheng, the Asian record holder from Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, won the silver medal in the event with the final throw of 77 meters 03, which was the first medal won by athletes from our province at the Olympic Games, and the first time that the athletics project in our province won the top three in the Olympic Games.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > debuted on the World Series podium at the age of 30</h1>
Because his mother was a classmate of an athletics coach at Baoji Sports School, Wang Zheng was sent to the sports school at the age of 12 to start training in throwing sports. After entering the provincial team in 2003, Wang Zheng studied under the "champion coach" Ou Xiyuan. Although Wang Zheng won the 2006 World Junior Athletics Championships at the age of 19, it was in 2013 that he really began to be known. That year, Wang Zheng first won the championship with a score of 72 meters 78 in the Asian Championships in Athletics, and then defeated zhang Wenxiu, the domestic "first sister" at the national athletics championships. In 2014, Wang Zheng ushered in the first peak of his career, when he participated in the National Athletics Throwing Open in March of that year, Wang Zheng broke zhang Wenxiu's Asian record of 76 meters 99 with a score of 77 meters 68, and at the Incheon Asian Games in September of the same year, she also broke the Asian Games record while winning the gold medal.
Two years later, when he came to the Rio Olympics, Wang Zheng, who was aiming to win a medal, encountered an accident and was unfortunately eliminated due to the lack of results in the first three shots. The accident did not knock down Wang Zheng, and in 2017 she received the most precious gift of the year when she was 30 years old - the silver medal at the World Championships, which was also Wang Zheng's first time on the podium of the World Series.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > almost missed the Olympics due to injury</h1>
Wang Zheng, who has a world championship medal, is looking forward to being on the podium at the Olympic venue, saying that the Olympic Games have always been her dream. However, an accident last year almost stopped Wang Zheng from the gates of the Tokyo Olympic Games. "Tokyo is my third Olympic trip, the first two times for various reasons the results are not ideal, so I have always hoped to win a medal in Tokyo, but last year during the epidemic I was injured in the knee, the knee is a particularly important part for the throwing athletes, after the injury the whole person is more depressed, depressed, and then because the epidemic Olympic Games were postponed, I suddenly felt that God is still more concerned about me, give me this opportunity to be able to recover more time, So this time I will release all the power I have accumulated over the years. Wang Zheng said before going to Tokyo.
In the Olympic Games, Wang Zheng is the oldest player in the Chinese track and field team, but in the women's chain ball event, the Polish "macho girl" Vodarchik is two years older than her, who is also a "god-like" figure in the project, and the top 10 in the history of women's chain ball are her name, and she is also the only player who can exceed 80 meters.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > a season personal best</h1>
In the qualifying round held on August 1, Vodalchik ranked first with a score of 76 meters and 99 meters, Wang Zheng ranked second, and 74 meters 29 also set a new personal best of the season.
In the final on the evening of the 3rd, Wang Zheng, the fifth appearance, had a score of 73 meters 21 in the first throw, and then she raised her score to 75 meters 30 in the second throw. Vodalchik's time in the second throw was 76 m 01, and in this race, All but two fouls, Vodalchik finished above 76 m, with the best result being 78 m 48 in the fourth hurdle. Also in the fourth throw, another Polish player, Koopron, played well, with a score of 75 meters 49, and temporarily surpassed Wang Zheng to second place. Since there was no result in the fifth throw foul, Wang Zheng had to make a desperate bet in the final round if he wanted to attack a better position. Debut, prepare, turn around, shoot... With Wang Zheng's shouts, the chain ball drew a wonderful arc in the air, and the result was finally fixed at 77 meters 03, and Wang Zheng celebrated with open arms after confirming the silver medal, which was not only her first Olympic medal, but also the first medal of the Shaanxi Legion in the Olympic Games, and also the first medal in the history of the Shaanxi Athletics Project in the History of the Olympic Games. Yan Bin, chief reporter of Xi'an Newspaper All-Media Photo/Xinhua News Agency
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